Hello.

I have my 120gig hard disk partitioned as follows:

hda1= NTFS (/windows)
hda5= reiserfs (/)
hda6= linux swap
hda7= ext3 (/home)
hda8= FAT32 (/backup)

I have mounted these partitions at the mount points in brackets. Basically I recently installed slackware 10.0. I used to have the same partions on slack 9.1 and had no problems accessing the ntfs and fat partitions.

My problem is that now only the root user can access these non-linux paritions. This is not good as I use the FAT partion to store all my downloads and programme files etc. I have tried editing my /etc/fstab file to give permission to users but nothiner works. The root users cannot change the permissions on these mount points. So unless I log in as root i, or anyone else, cannot access the FAT or NTFS partitions. I'm not so bothered about the NTFS partition, but i really need the FAT one.

I will post my /etc/fstab when i get the chance.

My question is: Is this normail?
And what should I put in my fstab table to allow the root user to change the permissions or to allow normal users to access the FAT partition.

Any ideas anyone? Thanks!

It is a fairly common problem. The thing is, ntfs and fat don't store file permissions (unlike *nix filesystems) so, when you want to mount them, you need to specify some default permissions. The umask, uid and gid options in /etc/fstab are the relevant ones. If you set gid to the number of the users group and you set umask to 664, that will give everyone in users read/write permissions on the fat/ntfs partitions. Which is probably what you want. Read the man page for mount if you want more detailed information.

could u pzl help me?
my project is ntfs driver.
the purpose of my project is to access ntfs in linux.
i'm using redhat linux 9,kernel 2.4.20

Please provide me the source code for this project.

MY EMAIL ID IS ashwini_4@yahoo.com.
Please reply me)

Put something like this in /etc/fstab

/dev/hda1 /mnt/windows ntfs ro,umask=0 0 0